Medical Imaging

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COVID-19 Coronavirus: What Medical Imaging Tells Us

The outbreak of the COVID-19 Coronavirus has reached pandemic levels in a matter of mere weeks, taking thousands of lives and infecting thousands more around the world every day.

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April 1, 2020 – 4 min read
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Sprains, Strains, Dislocations, and Breaks — How Medical Imaging Reveals The Difference

Your body is an amazing entity made up of all sorts of tissues and organs that allow you to function like a well-oiled machine. When something goes wrong with

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March 3, 2020 – 7 min read

What The New Year Means For Your Deductible

As we spend the days in full celebration ushering in the new year, your medical insurance company is resetting the clocks on your deductible. It is important for you

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January 24, 2020 – 5 min read
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What Medical Imaging Can Reveal About Your Joints

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and no statement can be truer in reference to the relationship between medical imaging and your joints. Our joints

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December 10, 2019 – 4 min read

September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Pediatric cancer accounts for nearly 1% of all cancer diagnoses in the United States and results in nearly 15,600 children under the age of 19 diagnosed each year. Compared

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September 5, 2019 – 6 min read
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Your Medical Records Belong To YOU

Prior to 1996, medical information and records were used exclusively at the discretion of the healthcare professionals that wrote them. Although medical records have been considered private information, it

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August 30, 2019 – 3 min read
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Using Medical Imaging to Verify Accuracy

When most people think of medical imaging, they think of the diagnostic purposes it serves — identifying a tumor, visualizing a broken bone, or searching for a strain or

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August 27, 2019 – 3 min read
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Frequently Not-So-Common Questions About Medical Imaging

At Touchstone Imaging Centers, we perform thousands of medical imaging tests each day around the nation. Each day we are asked tens of thousands of questions by our patients

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July 20, 2019 – 6 min read
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Lung Diseases That Chest Imaging Can Reveal

Medical imaging is a powerful diagnostic tool that is used in conjunction with other diagnostic tests and procedures to confirm a diagnosis, develop an effective treatment plan, and follow-up

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July 19, 2019 – 4 min read